Microsoft's Azure cloud suffers first crash

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NEW The Azure Screen of Death... #

Posted Monday 16th March 2009 19:45 GMT

...have they tried turning it off and on again?

Paris, 'cuz she would turn it on (again)

Tom

Find out exactly what went wrong? #

Posted Monday 16th March 2009 23:25 GMT

You offer something this big and then you dont know why its gone tits-up?

Clueless system programming - you should patent that.

Anonymous Coward

Not sure of what the problem was #

Posted Monday 16th March 2009 23:25 GMT

But I'm sure that the solution was to reboot the whole thing

Will Godfrey

Eggs and baskets #

Posted Monday 16th March 2009 23:25 GMT

Saw this coming a mile away. Totally inevitable and predictable.

Guess who won't be 'clouding' his data.

Kobayashi Gimp

Don't you just hate it when that happens... #

Posted Monday 16th March 2009 23:25 GMT

Welcome to our world MSFT!

Dunhill

..clue??.. #

Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 10:41 GMT

i am 4.5 years old and i am a pc

(usa advertisement)

%^%CRASH^&&^

that happens if you let kids work with windows

rob

Powered by Clouds #

Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 10:41 GMT

They need more propellers!

Steve

The joys of centralized services #

Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 10:41 GMT

There's a reason why people stopped using timesharing bureaux and put individual computers in offices and on desks, y'know. As usual it takes 20 years or so for people to reinvent the wheel, and find out that they still get punctures.

robbie

Time for megacloud #

Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 14:43 GMT

What are the chances of all these clouds being down at the same time? I think parallelism is the way forward here.

Anonymous Coward

Flying IMC #

Posted Wednesday 18th March 2009 10:51 GMT

As any IFR rated pilot will tell you, flying IMC in an open cockpit is dangerous because you get cloud in your mouth.

Paris. As she makes equally sense. Or not.

Chris

Windows Update #

Posted Wednesday 18th March 2009 11:26 GMT

Well they have published the reasons and how it's not going to happen again.

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/03/18/the-windows-azure-malfunction-this-weekend.aspx

They blame a "routine os upgrade" - yes that same trick that cause the Yankee Group to declare Windows Server the most unreliable in the industry for 2008.

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